Asymmetrical urban warfare is death for all. The last few decades have shown us this.

I mean, if by “years” you mean less than a year, killed, and buried in a mass grave in El Salvador than sure.

You’d change your mind on this while you go through torture

You don’t come out alive from those prisons and it’s gonna hurt more than bullets

The official stance is that nobody will ever get out of that prison alive. Literally. It’s one very specific prison, and it’s reduced El Salvador’s violent crime rate to damn near zero because of how fucked up that prison is, and how little due process you’ll receive if you even just get caught having gang tattoos. They don’t need to connect you to any specific crime.

You’ll share the cell with like 40 other dudes, and you all share one communal water barrel and one communal shit pit. The food is specifically designed to not be nutritious enough to sustain any muscle mass. You’ll wish for death in there, but you can’t even commit suicide by another inmate. Even suicide by guard is hard to pull off.

I’d honestly take the bullet over CECOT.

You can imagine being freed from a concentration camp but can’t imagine successful community defense.

Cops don’t want to die in a hail of bullets either. There are more of us than them.

Death is far from the worst thing that can happen to someone. We all must walk with the reaper some day. I would much rather die on my feet than live on my knees. CECOT is not living, it is Hell. I would infanetly prefer to go to Valhalla than CECOT.

What if I told you it won’t be very many years, and it’ll also be the rest of your life?

I was hopeful that after 2020 we had learned our lesson but I was gravely mistaken…

No. It is not weapons that will be effective, but tactics. I think the closest analogue would be the IRA, or any insurgency against the US in the middle east for more recent examples.

So what are you doing as an American?

You expect the rest of the world to act for you, while you sit back and disparage people talking about a solution.

Well, this would be a noble start: Guerilla Shotgun

I suppose one could start hoarding glass bottles and gasoline/styrofoam gel.

I’ve done neither of those things, but I have read Mila 18 a bunch of times, so I guess there’s that. Oh, and I do have at least one board with a nail sticking out of it somewhere behind the shed.

Why improvise? I can walk into a store and leave with a rifle and armor piercing rounds

So which improvised weapons have you crafted to oppose this regime?

I’d say but I don’t want a visit from the alphabet boys

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Which is not nothing but there’s a point there.

Oooh are they holding signs?

When people rise up without a clear plan or shared vision, they often end up reinforcing the very system they’re trying to challenge. That’s because the people in power already control the tools that shape our thinking—like the media, schools, and pop culture.

If we want real change, we need more than just passion. We need a shared understanding of what kind of world we’re trying to build. Otherwise, we risk repeating the same mistakes and rebuilding the same broken system in a different costume.

Capitalist ideas have had centuries to take root and evolve. They’ve got a head start and powerful platforms to keep spreading—TV, textbooks, social media, movies, everything. To challenge that, we need a complete shift in how we think about power, community, and freedom.

So here’s the big question: Is this shift happening? Can we see it in the protests, mutual aid networks, labor strikes, and grassroots organizing across the country?

If we believe it’s possible, then now’s the time to act—together, intentionally, and with clarity. Let’s build a new vision of society—one not handed down by the powerful, but created by us. Start by asking: What do you really want the future to look like? And who’s with you in building it?

An entirely spontaneous movement will end up reproducing the dominant ideology in a given society, because the dominant class has the means at its disposal to propagate and reproduce the dominant ideology.

So a revolutionary movement must know in advance what its revolutionary theory is; it must be united around a particular vision of society, a particular theory of revolutionary change, or it will simply reproduce the society that it is acting against.

Ideas that support capitalism have been around much longer than alternative ones, are more refined, and have way more tools to spread themselves—like the media, schools, and culture. A drastic change in structural thought is necessary.

Where is the evidence that this change in structural thought is actually occurring in the United States? How is this present in the dissent that has manifested thus far?

I was thinking of those poor young men and women who are already at the bottom of society and have no chance. I’m Indigenous Canadian so I know what it feels like to be at the bottom of the pile and I’ve lived with and know many young men and women who faced a life of prosecution. At one point you lose hope and give up and realize that no matter what you do, you’re going to get punished. Most people have a survival instinct that kicks in and says hang on and keep hoping for something. But I’ve also seen people lose hope and then just go out in a blaze of glory and kill and destroy as much as they can on their way out.

This is why capital punishment of any kind doesn’t work … once you take away people’s hope, then they become reckless and give up on following any social norms or laws.

Sure, the dems deserve it just like a woman deserves what she gets for wearing that revealing dress in that bar, right? Because that’s what you are doing. Blaming the victims.

Instead of blaming the Republican party and people who didn’t vote, you make fun of the only people who tried to stop them. Which tells us all exactly the type of person you are.

Someone who would rather make fun of “THE DEMS” instead of Trump and the Republican party. You’re the problem, not “the dems”.

attending is the bare minimum i can do, but until we collectively get up enough courage for large scale civil disobedience, simple protests are a starting point to get you connected with local allies and movements.

Simple protesting are not a starting point. Using protests to agitate and sell your community on more radical action is a starting point. I’m not saying you’re like that, but many people think that protesting is enough or the most they can do, or that they just need to “put pressure on their representatives” or win the midterms. Those people are, in fact, not even at the starting line. The idea of “this isn’t enough, but it’s a good start” is dangerous because it invites inaction with the assumption that action that is “enough” will happen eventually. It won’t; you need to make it happen. Many, if not most, in this nascent resistance movement don’t understand the urgency of the situation or the scale of action necessary to fix it and will have to be dragged by people like you to effective resistance.

If you’re wondering why I keep saying you and not we, it’s because I’m armchair strategizing/agitating from the other side of the world.

I was looking at states guard and wondering if blue states should be bolstering up their organized armed militias. State guard, as opposed to national guard, cannot be called upon by the federal government and are solely under the direction of the state governors.

One big downside, is many of the state guardsman are members of the national guard as well, as being in the state guard does not preclude you from the national military. There seems to be a lot of training from the national guard to the state guard.